Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 176th edition coming right up, with everything from CES 2022, to the S21 FE reveal, OnePlus 10 Pro specs, and more.
It was -4 °C here this morning, so I'm cozied up indoors playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey — so far I think I'm preferring it to Origins!
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When multiple generations of Spider-Man come together as they did in the recent Spider-Man: No Way Home, it's only natural for the actors behind the mask to compare their different Spidey costumes, with Amazing SpiderMan actor Andrew Garfield recalling the 'one of his companions. SpiderMen is jealous of a particularly useful item included in his costume. Remembering the first time they were all in their respective costumes, Garfield discussed what it was like on the set of No Way Home with three live SpiderMens.
“[Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire and I] talked about what worked for each of us,” Garfield said in an interview with Variety. “[Holland] was jealous because I have little zippers in it. my dress that I can take off my hands very easily. ”In fact, Garfield recalled how Holland was forced to resort to a workaround to use the phone while he was dressed, saying,“ So that the phone works, he had to use his nose because he couldn't access his hands.
Garfield brought back other memories during his time with Holland and Maguire while working at No Way Home, as Garfield discussed what he was not just as as a SpiderMan fan himself, but as one of the many. Actors who played the character on the big screen. “I think the first time we all put the costume together,”
Garfield said, “it was hilarious because it's just three normal guys who were just actors who had just come outside. But then you too become a fan and say, "Oh my God, we are all dressed together and doing as it says!"We would also have deeper conversations and talk about our experiences with the character.
Garfield recalled other memories during his time with Holland and Maguire while working on No Way Home, as Garfield discussed what it was like not only as a fan of Spider-Man himself but as one of several actors who have portrayed the character on the big screen.
"I think the first time we were all in the suit together," Garfield said, "it was hilarious because it’s like just three ordinary dudes who were just actors just hanging out. But then also, you just become a fan and say, 'Oh my god we’re all together in the suits and we’re doing the pointing thing!'... We would have deeper conversations, too, and talk about our experiences with the character."
Garfield summed up his experience with his fellow Spider-Men, as the actor went on the reveal the origins behind one of his improvised lines in No Way Home. "There's a line I improvised in the movie, looking at [Maguire and Holland] and I tell them I love them," Garfield said. "That was just me loving them."
Although it's been almost a decade since Garfield last donned the Spidey suit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the actor recently spoke about returning to the role on a possible future project.
Garfield also spoke about what got him aboard the multiversal cast of No Way Home, including how one scene in particular convinced him to dress up as a WebSlinger again.
Garfield has elaborated further on the initial pitch for the film when he was approached by Sony and Marvel, detailing the concept that would allow him to explore an old character in a new way.
Our quick picks for the best Samsung Galaxy S21 FE cases:
It might have taken longer than expected, but the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is finally here. Like its predecessor, the “fan edition” of Samsung’s 2021 flagships offers a great balance of high-end features and price, without too many compromises along the way. It’s cheaper than the rest of the S21 family, but you’ll still want to keep it protected for as long as possible. From thin cases to the extremely rugged, these are the best Samsung Galaxy S21 FE cases you can get right now.
More and more people are using a virtual private network (VPN) to improve their browsing experience. There are so many providers out there to choose from that you may not know where to start. To give you a hand, we’ve rounded up the best VPN deals from many of the top providers.
A VPN encrypts your internet connection and allows you to route it through servers in different countries. It’s completely legal to use, and it means no one can access your data. Hackers can’t intercept your bank details, your ISP can’t monitor your activity, and so on. The new IP address you get in a different location means that your connection can’t be traced back to you either, so you’re both anonymous and secure.
Best phone: Samsung Galaxy S21 FE
So far, OnePlus has told us some significant details related to the OnePlus 10 Pro. We already know what it looks like and some of its most basic specs. If you need to catch up, check out our roundup below.
Catch up: Everything we know about the OnePlus 10 series
In late 2021, OnePlus announced “OnePlus 2.0,” which is essentially all about the company merging with sister brand Oppo. With that in mind, it appears OnePlus is going to borrow quite a bit from Oppo’s release strategy when it comes to the OnePlus 10 series.
Catch up: Everything we know about the OnePlus 10 family
If there’s one set of product categories that define the CES experience, it is televisions and monitors. Each January, TV and monitor manufacturers from LG to Panasonic and Samsung to TCL unveil their product ranges for the year. These sets and monitors will reach electronic retailers and computer store showrooms in a few months. At CES 2022, we saw a wide variety of TVs, monitors, and new technologies, including QD-OLED, mini LED, micro LED, and even shape-shifting panels.
Whether you prefer large or small TVs, want 4K or 8K, or need 120Hz or curved screens for gaming, these are the best TVs and monitors we saw at CES 2022.
It’s a brand new year, and with 2022 comes an exciting array of TV shows and movies on your favorite streaming services throughout the month of January. In this one-stop shop, we’ll tell you what to stream monthly across Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock, and other major platforms.
So without further ado, here are 10 streaming titles that you can catch in January 2022 as you kickstart a new year of binging.
AT&T always has a good mix of deals up its sleeve. These include discounts on smartphones and other tech products, various bundles, and more. Right now, you can even grab deals on AT&T’s new TV service. We’ve rounded up the best AT&T deals that you can get directly from the carrier — check them out below.
See also: AT&T buyer’s guide: Plans, perks, and everything else you need to know
Update: January 6, 2021 (12:45 PM ET): We’ve updated our Samsung Galaxy S22 rumor hub with colorway details and a potentially welcome charging surprise for the Ultra model.
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How did flurona come about?
As the name suggests, flurona describes a rare double infection of both coronavirus and influenza. The term has emerged over recent days following the finding of a patient in Israel who tested positive for both diseases when she came into hospital on Thursday - the first recorded case in the world.
The young woman is pregnant and is reported to only have mild symptoms, but health officials have quickly started studying her case to determine whether the combination causes any greater severity of illness.
“She was diagnosed with the flu and coronavirus as soon as she arrived,” Professor Arnon Vizhnitser, director of the hospitals’ Gynaecology Department, told Jewish newspaper Hamodia.
“Both tests came back positive, even after we checked again. The disease is the same disease. They’re viral and cause difficulty breathing since both attack the upper respiratory tract.”
According to latest reports, the patient is expected to be discharged on Thursday.
What are the symptoms?
It is difficult for scientists to pinpoint an exact set of symptoms, but flurona’s most common effects are likely to be a combination of those of Covid and influenza.
The Israeli patient did reportedly exhibit breathing difficulties and since Omicron already exhibits many of the same symptoms as the flu or a cold, the main effects are likely to include a high temperature, fatigue, aches, sneezing, a dry cough and/or scratchy throat.
Prof Vizhnitser confirmed that both infections are viral and cause difficulty breathing. “The disease is the same disease,” he said. “They’re viral and cause difficulty breathing since both attack the upper respiratory tract.”
How likely is it to spread?
Much about the infectiousness and seriousness of flurona remains unknown, but doctors have confirmed that other cases are likely to emerge - a result of rising flu cases as restrictions ease along with the fast spread of the Omicron variant.
Related: First Case Of Flurona Emerges in France
“We are seeing more and more pregnant women with the flu,” said Prof Vizhnitser. “It is definitely a great challenge dealing with a woman who comes in with a fever at childbirth.
“This is especially when you do not know if it’s coronavirus or the flu, so you refer to them the same. Most of the illness is respiratory.”
Source: Yahoo News
According to the screenshot shared with the report, the new feature will allow you to see small photos of the sender in the notification when you receive a new message from a single user or group.
The report also reveals that the feature is only available to a few beta testers running the iOS 15 operating system because the feature uses iOS 15 APIs.
The Facebook-owned platform is reportedly releasing the feature for more users with the upcoming updates.As the feature is still in beta, WhatsApp may experience issues showing profile photos on specific notifications, but these issues will likely be resolved whenever the feature is rolled out to the public.
Last week WhatsApp also started rolling out a 2.22.1.1 beta update for iOS users. The update supposedly contains hidden references to a feature that will allow users to create communities in future updates.
A similar hidden notice was also discovered in the beta update released two weeks ago for Android smartphones. For those of you who don't know, Facebook's own messaging platform has been working on a community feature for a while.
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Object 90377 Sedna - a distant transneptunian object best known for its highly elliptical, 11,390-year-old orbit - is currently en-route to perihelion (its closest approach to the Sun) in 2076. After that, Sedna will return to the 'space. deep and will not return for millennia, making this overview a unique (or, once in ~ 113 lifetimes) opportunity to study an object from the far reaches of our solar system. There are no Sedna missions in the works yet, but astronomers are starting to plan for the possibility and ideal launch date for such a mission is fast approaching, with two of the best launch windows coming in 2029 and 2034.
What really sets Sedna apart from the other known dwarf planet candidates is its enormous orbit, which takes it out towards the inner edge of the Oort cloud, the most distant region of the Solar System, where long-period comets lurk. There are several competing theories to explain how Sedna ended up in this position. Perhaps the most high-profile theory is the possibility that a yet unknown ninth planet, perhaps ten times the size of Earth, disrupted Sedna’s orbit and swept it and several other objects out into highly elongated orbits. Visiting Sedna probably won’t solve this particular mystery, but it will tell us a lot about the composition of these extreme trans-Neptunian objects.
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| The orbit of dwarf planet candidate 90377 Sedna (red) compared to Jupiter (orange), Saturn (yellow), Uranus (green), Neptune (blue), and Pluto (purple). Credit: Szczureq/kheider/NASA (Wikimedia Commons). |
In planning a mission to Sedna, the Voyager spacecraft are not bad places to look for inspiration. They famously took advantage of a lucky alignment of planets to take a grand tour of the outer Solar System, stealing energy from Jupiter to pick up speed and reach their more distant targets. Similar gravity assists will be required to make the trip to Sedna manageable. A team of scientists led by Vladislav Zubko from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences recently modeled a series of possible trajectories to Sedna, favoring a 2029 launch date as the most feasible option.
The 2029 trajectory, they determined, would take the spacecraft to Venus first, then back to Earth (twice), before passing Jupiter on the way to Sedna, with flight times as short as 20 years but more optimally in the 30-year range. The longer flight time would increase the altitude of the spacecraft over Jupiter during the gravity assist, reducing the time spent exposed to the gas giant’s harmful radiation.
A 30-year flight plan would also mean passing by Sedna more slowly, providing more time to gather data on the object. Choosing this option would give the spacecraft a relative velocity of 13.70km/s as it passed Sedna, comparable to the speed at which New Horizons approached Pluto in 2015.
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| 90377 Sedna as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004. Credit: NASA. |
As a bonus, this trajectory would also take the spacecraft past a 145km diameter asteroid named Massalia, providing the team with an additional scientific target to study, as well as a chance to test the spacecraft’s systems.
A second trajectory proposed by the team would consist of a 2034 launch, and would provide a similar additional flyby, this time of the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche.
At the moment, it’s unclear whether a mission to Sedna will actually make it to the launch pad with all the competing options available to mission planners in the coming decade, but as it’s our only chance in the next 11,000 years, the idea is sure to be given due diligence.
Note:This article is taken from Universe Today to see original article Click here
Source: Universe Today
It’s easy to find a good Chromebook on a budget. After all, the whole idea behind Chrome OS devices is that they serve as a cheaper alternative to Windows laptops. We’ve rounded up some of the best Chromebook deals on the internet so you won’t have to search too hard for a good price.
See also: The best Chromebooks you can get
CES takes place right at the beginning of the year, making it the perfect time for companies to debut new wearables, smartwatches, and various other fitness products. This year’s trade show is no different.
From fitness watches, smart rings, smartwatches with gaming company collabs, and more, here are the best new wearables launched at CES 2022.
When it comes to foldable devices, Samsung basically dominates the market. Sure, Motorola has a new foldable on the way, as does Oppo, but Samsung is the only organization making and selling them in high volumes.
See also: The best foldable phones you can get
After a strong Asus ROG launch, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company had plenty up its sleeve for non-gamers, too. We saw new Strix models launch as part of the Rise of Gamers event and the Future Unfolds event held even more for CES 2022. Asus bounced from Zenbooks to TUF Gaming machines, and even a 17-inch foldable display laptop as part of its 45-minute event.
One of the first announcements was the official move away from the classic Asus wordmark. Instead, all new Zenbooks bear a triangular monogram designed to represent the rising spirit of Asus. However, if you ask us, it looks a bit like the Space Force logo. Anyway, on to the launches.
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Pfizer headquarters in New York.
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Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech announced on Wednesday that they would develop a potential mRNA-based vaccine for the prevention of viral shingles, working together for the third time after the success of their COVID-19 vaccine.
Pfizer partnered with BioNTech in 2018 for an influenza vaccine and again in 2020 to develop the COVID-19 vaccine which has been used around the world and brought in billions of dollars in corporate sales.
The companies plan to begin clinical trials of the shingles vaccine, which will combine antigen technology recognized by scientists at Pfizer with BioNTech's mRNA platform technology, in the second half of 2022.
Shingles, also known known as herpes zoster, usually develops in older people who had chickenpox or varicella-zoster virus when they were younger.
Its hallmark is a painful rash that goes away within a month in most cases. In some cases, however, this leads to nerve pain which can persist for much longer collaboration, BioNTech will receive $225 million in upfront payment and be eligible for future regulatory and commercial payments of up to $200 million. BioNTech will pay Pfizer $25 million for the company's proprietary antigen technology.
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| The logo for HBO is pictured during the HBO presentation at the Cable portion of the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser |
HBO ended the year with 73.8 million subscribers to its streaming service and its eponymous cable network, up from 69.4 million in September.
Those gains, coupled with the addition of nearly 900,0000 monthly paid phone subscribers, pushed the stock up 3% to $ 26.46. in the midday exchanges.
“I think the streaming service's cap is much higher than what we've seen to date,” WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said in an interview.
“This will quickly become a three-way race for storytelling companies.
HBO Max still has a long way to go to capture market leader Netflix Inc, with 214 million subscribers, and Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) Disney +, with 118 million. Disney's growth slowed in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, prompting a banker to downgrade the stock. Disney + added just 2.1 million in the October quarter. Netflix, which slowed sharply in the first half of 2021, saw its subscriptions increase in October, adding 4.4 million during the quarter, driven by the global sensation “Squid Game".
WarnerMedia's HBO Max logged gains as it expanded the server reach from a single market, the United States, to 46 countries. Kilar said global expansion will continue this year, eventually targeting 190 countries.
AT&T (T.N) announced last May that it would split its WarnerMedia unit and merge it with Discovery (DISCA.O). The deal is expected to be finalized in the middle of this year.
As part of CES 2022, Google has announced a bevy of features that are mostly centered around boosting interconnectivity between its own operating systems as well as reducing friction between connected peripherals and smart hubs.
Additionally, the company is focusing on improving the connected car experience through a series of feature updates including but not limited to digital car keys and Google Assistant-based commands.
Razer yesterday announced a refresh to its popular Blade lineups of gaming laptops. While the refresh was a rather significant upgrade, it wasn’t the most exciting CES 2022 announcement Razer had for us. That comes today, in the form of a crazy modular gaming desk PC and a gaming chair with haptics for an immersive experience.
Razer today revealed Project Sophia — a concept modular gaming desk PC that aims to merge your desk PC setup into one big modular entity. To go along with it is a real product that you will be able to buy — the Razer Enki Pro HyperSense, a gaming chair that packs in a haptic feedback system.
While Razer is pretty firmly linked to PC gaming for most people, the company occasionally tries to extend its appeal into the broader tech universe. Its true wireless headphones are considered a decent buy, for instance.
Its latest overture, though, involves establishing a Razer smart home platform. This includes partnerships and a mobile app for central control.
At CES 2022, gaming accessory maker HyperX unveiled a new version of its classic Cloud Alpha gaming headset, along with a host of other new gaming accessories. The HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless doesn’t bring a lot of fancy new bells and whistles. But the company is looking to claim the crown in one area: battery life.
See also: The best gaming headsets for taking your game to the next level
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